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AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY 

PHILADELPHIA 
1895 



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Copyright 1895 by the 
American Baptist Publication Society 



NOTE 



These articles first appeared in ' ' The Young Peoples 
Union," when that paper was under the control of the 
American Baptist Publication Society. Their worth de- 
mands their present form. Especially is this so in that, 
since our beloved Dr. Gordon's translation, every word of 
his seems as gold to be sacredly treasured. 



CONTENTS 

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I 

Purity is Power, 9 

II 
Honoring one's Heredity, 17 

III 

Making the Most of Life, 25 



ELEMENTS 
OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 



** Sow a thought and reap an act ; sow an act and reap a 
habit ; sow a habit and reap a character ; sow a character 
and reap a destiny, ' ' — Thackeray, 



PURITY IS POWER 



My strength is as the strength of ten 
Because my heart is pure, 

— Idyls of the King, 



PURITY IS POWER 

AS a defensive weapon certainly it is such — else 
why are we exhorted in Scripture to '' put 
on the armor of light '' ? A sunbeam cannot be 
defiled even if it fall upon a dunghill ; no more 
can the soul's purity be stained by contact with 
sin if that purity be an emanation from the Sun 
of righteousness. ^^If,'' we say; and the whole 
question turns upon this point. After the solemn 
warnings against making professions of sinless- 
ness with which John's first epistle opens, we are 
almost startled to find farther on the bold as- 
sertion : ' ' Whosoever is born of God doth not 
commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he 
cannot sin because he is born of God^^ (i John 3 : 9). 
The meaning seems to be that the divine life in 
the soul of the regenerated man does not sin, 
though the human tends constantly to do so. 
That life is a ray of the Father's glory, a beam of 
the uncreated light, pure and incorruptible, and 
if that life is in us, and has perfect sway, we shall 
so far be invulnerable to the shafts of temptation. 
The trouble is we so often go into battle without 
our armor ; through prayerlessness and unwatch- 

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fulness leaving behind the ''breastplate of right- 
eousness," and trusting to the weak defense of our 
own morality, we are vanquished at the first onset 
of the foe. With the ''armor of light" firmly 
girded on, we have the best security which God 
can provide. A good-sized electric burner, they 
tell us, is equal to a couple of policemen for 
guarding certain dangerous quarters of a great 
city ; and Christians are lights in the world set 
for defense as well as for irradiation. 

Lady Powerscourt, in one of her letters says : 
*' I have been much arrested of late by Acts 5:13: 
'And of the rest durst no man join himself to 
them ; but the people magnified them. ' Just 
what believers should be among men^ The 
question is not. Shall we put out this or that 
person from our society ? but, shall we not so 
live, so speak that no man who is not in reality 
'of us ' durst join himself to us? " 

An exceedingly suggestive comment. What so 
effectual guard can be placed upon the purity of 
the church as a holy life in each of its members ? 
There is a kind of wholesome repulsion in true 
sanctity of character which holds the worldly 
aloof from it ; and hence a godly membership is 
the best warden a church can have for protecting 
it against the accessions of the unconverted. 

Therefore we want more high-churchism if we 
are to be kept pure. Not ecclesiastical highness ; 



PURITY IS POWER 13 

not the highness of ritual exclusiveness and self- 
righteousness ; but the highness of holy living in 
such as have their conversation in heaven, and 
look down from the lofty regions of an exalted 
self-consecration upon the vanity and folly and 
fashion of this world as upon something infinitely 
beneath them. The kind of exclusiveness which 
we want is the exclusiveness of singular and guile- 
less lives in the church of Christ. '^ The reason 
we have so many low sinners," says one, '' is that 
we have so few high saints." 

It is the low church that gets inundated by 
worldliness and worldly men. Men, like water, 
always find their level. If the style of life in the 
church is on a level with the world, the world 
will easily and naturally break through the thin 
barrier of a religious profession that intervenes 
and flow in. Ungodly lives will not run up hill to 
get into the church. If they can get in by simply 
keeping their own grade and elevation, they may 
do so. 

Moreover, Christians can only give an effective 
and unanswerable testimony against sin and every 
form of worldliness as they are themselves separate 
from the world and "solid for Christ." Would 
yQU arrest the current of a stream? You can do 
so by building a dam of ice. Bring your frozen 
blocks cut from the winter's quarry, firm and 
compact as granite, and lay them into a solid wall 



14 KI.EMENTS OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 

across the stream. You will thereby check the 
current and turn back the waters for a while. 
But because the ice is the same substance as the 
water which it would resist, it soon dissolves and 
returns again to its fluid form, and its resistance 
ends. So put a worldly Christian into the world 
and he may oppose for a while and feebly its 
evil tendencies ; but because he is of the same 
substance as the world he will soon be resolved 
back into his original element, and his testimony 
will cease. Granite Christians cut from the quarry 
of heaven are what are wanted ; new creatures 
in Christ, formed out of the Divine nature, whose 
fibre is neither weakened nor dissolved by the 
flow of worldly influence sweeping over and past 
them. 

Let us understand the Christian's calling then. 
He is not set to conform the world to Christ ; but 
being himself taken out of the world he is to be 
not conformed to the world, in order that he may 
win men therefrom and bring them into the 
church. To bring the world into the church 
while still unconverted is the destruction of all 
Christian purity, and the end of all ecclesiastical 
integrity. For when the world moves into the 
church the church moves out. There is no com- 
munity of life between them, and they cannot 
keep house in the same tenement. True, they 
have a necessary contact. They touch and inter- 



PURITY IS POWER 1 5 

penetrate like air and moisture. But once 
establish such an affinity between them as that 
they shall mix and coalesce, and the end of the 
church has come. It is a mixture which, like 
certain chemical combinations, is distinguished 
by the fact that one of the elements is pre- 
cipitated, and goes to the bottom ; and that ele- 
ment will certainly be the church. 

And the doctrinal standard should be as high, 
certainly, as the practical. There is nothing so 
vital and so conservative as purity of faith. Men 
of the world are jealous of their belief. They 
won't believe a thing because it is true half so 
readily as because it is flattering to their pride 
and congenial to their natural disposition. Hold 
the doctrines that Paul held, and we shall not 
find men embracing them for the pleasure of it 
simply. Unregenerate human nature won't run 
to a doctrine that condemns it and puts God's 
mark of reprobation upon it. The light of the 
glorious gospel attracts men who are willing to 
be searched by it and condemned by it. But it is 
not a light like that which draws the millers and 
the twilight flies — only to sport in its beams for 
their own diversion. 

Purity is power. The rose, among the sweetest 
and most beautiful of God's creations, is armed 
with thorns, nature's sharp bayonets for warding 
off* attack. Purity is the defense of beauty ; 



1 6 KIvKMKNTS OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 



modesty is the safeguard of innocence. '' Keep 
thyself pure." The severe chastity which repels 
familiarity is as absolutely essential for the safety 
of the soul as genial attractiveness is for its 
beauty. 



II 



HONORING ONE'S HEREDITY 



* * Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; 
and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me 
and keep my com7nandments. ' ' — The Bible, 



II 

HONORING one's HEREDITY 

IT is a great blessing to have been well bom, as 
it is the highest privilege to have been new 
born. Holiness does not run in the blood indeed, 
but God's favor does descend from father to 
children upon such as love him and keep his 
commandments. If we cannot inherit our parents' 
piety therefore, we may inherit our parents' pray- 
ers. Many a saint dies with a large balance of 
unanswered intercessions to his credit. He prayed 
daily, '' Lord, bless and sanctify my children to 
the latest generation," and the lyord hearkened 
and heard, and a book of remembrance was writ- 
ten. Pot God keeps a ledger as well as a day- 
book ; and by-and-by he will square his accounts 
and pour out upon children and children's chil- 
dren the blessings which parents earned at the 
throne of grace. Wonderful is the law of trans- 
mission in blood and in brain, but especially in 
the book of human generations ! A great English 
preacher says, '^Alas, if some grandfather of mine 
got drunk at the coronation of King George III., 
I am somewhat the worse for it." But this hap- 
pily is not all. Each of us may say: ''If some 

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20 ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 

ancestor of mine fasted and prayed on the day of 
Washington's inauguration, asking God for the 
salvation and sanctification of his posterity to the 
latest generation, I am somewhat the better for 
it." The Bible honors pious heredity : ''The un- 
feigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in 
thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice ; 
and I am persuaded that in thee also" (2 Tim. 
I : 5). The threads of human destiny are won- 
drously woven together in the web of life. The 
warp we fill in to-day, but the woof was spun 
years and generations ago. What Grandmother 
Ivois wrought upon her spinning-wheel of faith 
and prayerfulness and holy diligence, and dyed 
in sacrificial blood, Timothy now weaves into 
a like precious faith, and so fashions the garment 
of his character. Therefore, honor your ancestral 
faith. 

'' I am not obliged to wear my father's shoes," 
said a young man to us, as by request of his aged 
parents in the country we had gone and com- 
mended Christ to him. There was a tone of im- 
patience in his words as he said this which led us 
to inquire further. The reason of his remark 
soon appeared. Since coming to the great city 
he had found some shoes which do not fit so 
tightly as his father's. He had learned that he 
could be religious and yet go to the theatre, play 
cards, visit billiard halls, drink wine, etc. He 



HONORING ONE'S HEREDITY 21 

had discovered ministers who distinctly recognized 
liberty in these directions as entirely compatible 
with Christian sincerity. Why then wear the 
straight-laced shoes of his father's orthodoxy any 
longer — boots that cramp and restrain and pinch 
— when easy latitudinarian slippers can be had in 
which one can walk the paths of religion without 
being made miserable on the road? Here we 
touch a vital point. Christian parents have often 
reason to be more anxious on account of the 
religious influences thrown about their children 
than for the irreligious influences. As half a 
truth is more dangerous than a whole lie, so an 
adulterated religion is more to be dreaded than 
unmixed error. Liberal Christianity had fas- 
cinated the young man of whom we speak, and 
when we met him ten years later he was stag- 
gering in barefooted immorality down to death, 
his condition hopeless, unless he shall yet be 
willing to return to the Father's house and hear 
the joyful welcome: ''Bring forth the best robe 
and put it on him, and shoes on his feet/' '' Stick 
to your father's religion until you can find a 
better," do we say ? No ! we do not believe in 
comparative religions. A faith which does not 
rest alone on Jesus Christ as the co-equal Son of 
God, on the sacrificial death and justifying resur- 
rection — which does not hold steadfastly to the 
new birth and the cross-bearing life which the 



2,7, ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 



Saviour enjoined, is not the religion of the gospel, 
whatever else it may be. It is a delusive counter- 
feit. If your father's religion was a religion of 
faith in Christ, of daily prayer, of self-denial, of 
separation from the world with its vanities and 
follies, then stick to your father's religion indeed, 
for you will not find a better. There is but one 
religion and that is the true one, not the better or 
the best, but the only. 

Honor your ancestral training. 'V Doctor, how 
early should the training of a child begin?" 
asked an anxious mother of Dr. Oliver Wendell 
Holmes. ''A hundred years before the child is 
born" was his wise and witty reply. So far back 
did the training of the poet-doctor begin, and so 
far back has the character-building of most of our 
eminent men commenced. Ralph Waldo Emer- 
son was not the product of liberal Christianity. 
Half a dozen generations of Puritan and orthodox 
ancestors wrought in the workshop of virtue and 
morality and sobriety bring forth at last this ideal 
moralist. It was his rigid ancestral religion that 
constituted the root of his high character. John 
Henry Newman was not the fruit of Roman 
Catholic Christianity. His paternal tree struck 
its roots down deeply into Huguenot soil. As a 
rose bush may sometimes climb upon a thorn tree 
and bloom there, so that its fragrant flowers seem 
to have grown upon that evil root, so the sons of 



HONORING ONE'S HEREDITY 23 

Puritan and Huguenot may appear in connection 
with the rationalist or Romanist faith, when they 
really have no root connection with that faith. 
Is it not a shame for a tree to despise the root 
which bore it? How much more for a boastful 
liberal to despise Puritanism ; a self-confident 
moralist to sneer at ''blue orthodoxy"; an up- 
start society man or woman to look down upon 
the boorish laborers, when a glance backward 
might show in every instance that it is the child 
despising the father who begat him. Woe to the 
young man who is so proud as to suppose that he 
is his own father ! Woe to the character which 
imagines itself to be its own builder and maker ! 
Are we aware to whom we are most indebted ? 
Not to our schoolmasters, highly as we value their 
services on our behalf. That great-grandfather 
who worked at the anvil toughening his muscles 
and ours, and putting iron into blood of coming 
generations ; that sturdy grandmother who drudged 
in the backwoods farmhouse, building up the 
cellular tissue of her character for her posterity ; 
that father and mother who made us what we 
are, not by the rod which they wielded in their 
hands, but by the virtue and sobriety which they 
elaborated in their lives — these are the character- 
builders whom we have most occasion to honor. 

^^The mother* s heart is the child^s schoolroom^^ 
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24 ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 

young women play truant from that schoolroom 
when they get out into the world. Here is a col- 
lege from which we do well never to graduate. 
He, who like President Adams, is not ashamed to 
pray through life, ' ' Now I lay me down to 
sleep," is little likely to break through the morality 
which was learned at his mother's knee. 

And what if we have no pious mother's heart 
behind us to inspire us with good impulses ? Then 
let us rejoice that Qod has not left us to hopeless 
orphanage. '' There is little hope of children 
who are educated wickedly," says a Puritan 
writer, ' ^ since if the dye have beeji in the wool it 
is hard to get it out of the cloth, " Nay ! but God's 
cleansing extends even to fast colors : ' ' Though 
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as 
snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall 
be as wool." And not only to fast colors, but to 
the birth fountains of our being. ^' Born again 
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by 
the word of God which liveth and abideth for- 
ever." Here is a new and holy heredity for us, 
if our natural heredity is altogether against us. 

Blessed are they who in looking up to fathers 
and forefathers find in them such lofty and uplift- 
ing examples as give them a new inspiration and 
quickening every time they contemplate them. 



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* * / hold it truth with him who sings 
To one clear harp in divers tones, 
That men may rise on stepping-stones 
Of their dead selves to higher things, ' * 

— In Memoriam, 



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MAKING THE MOST OF LIKE 

BY life we mean our entire life — past, present, 
and future, the best and the worst parts of 
our earthly history, the days which we regret and 
the days in which we rejoice. We are not simply 
what we are, but what we were as well. As a 
tree gathers up all the growths of former years 
and contains them in the trunk, so our life is the 
summary and substance of all our past. This 
fact gives unspeakable seriousness to our daily 
living. Every to-day will soon become a yester- 
day, and then it will have been fixed and stereo- 
typed forever ; but it will still be a part of our 
corporate self. 

IvCt us observe then these several facts and 
draw a profitable lesson therefrom. First, we 
cannot detach ourselves from our past. Our years 
are all vertebrated together, and memory is a 
kind of spinal cord holding them in vital union. 
If there is a chapter of sinful history in our early 
career, it may have been fully forgiven by God 
and by men ; but its shadow will steal over us 
now and then to darken our joys and to discount 
our characters. There is a certain loss of credit, 

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of which one is constantly made aware whose 
early Hfe has been stained by some notorious 
transgression. And though such a one may have 
the best of friends to indorse for him, he never 
can be quite sure that he has recovered his stand- 
ing. We remember a minister of the gospel who 
had been guilty of a scandalous offense in early 
life. He repented, and was forgiven, and was 
afterward happily and usefully "settled as the 
pastor of a church. But some one who knew his 
former history happening to move into the parish 
let out the secret ; and the result was a complete 
undermining of his influence, ending in his 
resignation of the pastorate. The one who un- 
covered the buried sin certainly proved himself a 
child of the adversary. For if "to err is human, 
to forgive divine," surely to unearth a forgiven 
sin is devilish. Nevertheless, here is the seri- 
ous lesson for us to learn : a bad past is a drag 
on a hopeful present. ' ' The excesses of youth 
are drafts on manhood payable twenty-five or 
fifty years from date." Run up no debts then, 
young man and young woman, in your early 
says. See to it that you do not enter life mort- 
gaged, and so heavily mortgaged that some enemy 
of later years may foreclose on you and bring you 
into hopeless bankruptcy. A sweet childhood, a 
virtuous youth, a stainless and irreproachable holy 
life are an unspeakable inheritance for manhood 



MAKING THE MOST OF UFK 29 

and old age to rejoice in. While, therefore, it is 
still possible to lay up such an inheritance let it 
be done with the utmost diligence. But if un- 
happily we have a past behind us of which we are 
ashamed, there is a comforting reflection for us. 

We may get a blessing out of a sin-stained 
past. Let us, therefore, make the most of that 
part of our lives which we most regret. Thus 
we may 

Rise on stepping-stones 
Of our dead selves to higher things. 

The one who can strike the lowest note in the 
scale of regret is often the one who can sound the 
highest note in the scale of exultation. It was 
because Paul knew himself the chief of sinners 
that he was able so loftily to magnify Christ, ''the 
chief among ten thousand," and the one altogether 
lovely. ''The sting of death is sin," says the 
apostle. And who does not know that the sting 
of sin is conscience ? In moments of sweetest joy 
that sting will sometimes pierce the heart with 
an indescribable pang of remorse. But the pain 
of an accusing conscience may only brighten the 
joy of an assured forgiveness, so that we can say 
exultingly, " Where sin abounded grace did much 
more abound." We have supposed that the sting 
of the bee had no other use than to inflict pain 
upon its enemies. But the following from a book 
on natural history shows quite the contrary : 



30 KlyKMENTS OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER 

At a recent meeting of the Physiological Society of Berlin, it was 
stated that when the bee has filled the cell with pure honey and has 
completed the lid, a drop of formic acid obtained from the poison 
bag connected with the sting is added to the honey by perforating 
the lid with the sting. Numerous experiments show that this formic 
acid preserves the honey and every other solution from fermentation. 
If this be well established, it will show that the sting and the poison 
apparatus of the bee have a further purpose than that of a defensive 
weapon. Another interesting fact suggests itself in connection with 
this. So far as is known, most of the insects that have the stinging 
apparatus similar to that of the bee are collectors and storers of 
honey. 

Blessed parable this. As often as our guilty 
past comes before us and sin thrusts its sting into 
our conscience, we may believe that this is only 
to keep the honey of grace sweet and pure, 
making us love much because forgiven much. 
Ivct memory drive the sting of sin deep into our 
hearts, and we will cry, " Yes, I have sinned ; but 
the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth from 
all sin." John Bunyan aptly says, ''Some men 
tell us that when grace and good nature meet, you 
have a good Christian ; but I tell you that when 
grace and a great sinner meet you have the best 
Christian." It is so because the memory of great 
sin enhances the value of great grace. There is 
nothing that keeps the honey of assurance so 
sweet as the occasional thrust of the sting of 
conscience. 

We certainly can get salvation for our sinful 
past. 



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MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE 31 

God not only can forgive, but he can forget. 
^' Your sins and your iniquities will I remember no 
more against you," said Jehovah. And perhaps we 
have as great occasion to be grateful for the infi- 
nite forgetfulness of God as for his infinite 
memory. Man can do, God only can undo, mak- 
ing our sinful past to be as though it had never 
been. When the Saviour cried on Calvary, '' It 
is done," then indeed it was undone also. Atone- 
ment was finished, guilt canceled ; redemption 
done and sin undone. 

To make the most of life is not to get all we 
can of paltry joy and sensuous delight from it, 
but so to use it as to turn its sins and its follies, 
its failures and its falls into occasion for magni- 
fying the grace of God, even as the touch of 
Midas was fabled to transmute stones into gold. 






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